Metallic car construction.



No. 825,019. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906. E. I. DODDS.

METALLIC GAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.27,1905.

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ETHAN I. DODDS, OF AVALON, PENFISYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PULLMAN COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

'" Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed March 27 1905. Serial No. 262,390.

1:0 a whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. Donns, a citi- .en of the United States, and a resident of ion, county of Allegheny, State of Penninia, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Metallic Car Construction, oi which the following is a specification.

In other applications for Letters Patent of the United States, filed, respectively, on the 18th day of June, 1904, and bearing the respective Serial Nos. 213,139 and 213,140, I have shown and described steel car construe tions in which-the side and end walls of railway-cars are constructed of comparatively small plates, such as can readily be introduced into ordinary furnaces and straightened or restored after being bent or twisted by reason of accident. In the second of the two applications named I have illustrated and described an end construction for steel cars, particularly of the gondola type, in which the car end is made up of two end plates joined by a uniting member of special construction and adaptation. The other application referred to relates to a special carside construction in whicl the side plates extend from one side stake to the next and is attached thereto without overlapping.

The present invention relates to a car-end construction wherein three or more end plates are joined by special supporting devices adapted to strengthen the end construction and to simplify the renewal or replacement of the structural elements constituting the end of a car.

It is a common feature of all the inventions concerned in the former and the resent a plications thatjthe plates constituting t 9 to be easily handled, and in case the injury incurred applies to only one of the said lates it is easy to straighten it in a furnace 0 ordias been accomnary size, in which case it is only'necessa to remove one set of rivets and restore the ate or re lace it by another, whereby considerable labor and expense are avoided. Two of the end plates made use of in the construction described in the present application are secured to the corner member by any appropriate means, while the middle end plate is connected with the aforesaid end plates by means of T-shaped stakes constituting buttstraps as between the central end plate and the side end plate. The stakes referred to extend from the top plates or rails to the draft-sills, the flange of the T tapering from its bottom toward the top of the car. They are thus provided two T-shaped supporting and uniting members, and these members are themselves joined throughtheir projecting sills and rovides a gusset secured to the aforesaid flanges. In this way a strong and substantial end construction is provided for the car, the same being adapted to resist the ordinary strains to which in practice the ends of car-bodies are subjected.

.My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an end'elevation of a steel car embodying my invention. Fig 2 is a plan sectional view taken along the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section taken along the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a combined ssetlate and end covering for the draft-s ls, an Figs. 5 and 6 are different modifications of the part shown in Fig. 4.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 1 are the center or draft sills, and 2 2 2 are plates forming the ends of the car-body. Connections with adjacent parts are made by means of angle-pieces 3v 3 3 3. The two end plates 2 2 are joined by any suitable means to corner members 4 4, to which are also riveted side lates 5 5', as shown.

At 6 6 show end stakes or butt-straps and stakes combined, thesame extending from the u per plane of the draft-sills l 1 to the top p ate or rail 7. One part of each end stake consists of a flange 8, tapering from the bottom of the stake to the top, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. To the flanges 8 are secured I the upright members 9' 9 of a gusset 1Q, l which also has a vertical portion 11 and deflanges by a member which covers the draftcured underneath the carfloor.

This atent is intended to'embrace only so pending and bent-in portions 12 12. The v much oi the disclosure made herein as is covparts 9, 11, and 12 may conveniently be made of one piece of metal. ered by the claims.-

When the elements above described are all 1 I claim as my inventioncombined and riveted in the manner indi- 1. In a car having draft-sills, a metallic cated, the end of the car oody becomes a 5 cover for the projecting ends of the sills and Very strong rigid structure, and at the same vertical gusset-plates integral therewith. time the parts can readily be taken out and i 2. As an article of manufacture, a metallic replaced when necessary or desirable. cover for the ends of draft-sills and a set of Further reinforcement may be given by anvertical gusset-plates integral therewith. gular corner-brackets 13 13, preferably of l 3. A car end comprising three or more pressed steel, and rolled members 14 14, seplates, two or more end stakes forming butt- Each of the straps for adjacent plates, and each provided brackets 13 13 has an integral flange along with a vertical flange projecting beyond the its two sides adjacent to the side and end of ,-plates, in combination with one or more gusthe car, said flange tapering from the censets connecting adjacent flanges.

tral portion upward. The corner member Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook may be made of a piece of channel metal and State of Illinois, this 20th day of March,

bent backward, as clearly described in my A. D. 1905. second application referred to above. ETHAN I. DODDS.

The mode of utilizing Witnesses:

of gusset and sill-cover1ng illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 is obvious.

SAMUEL N. POND,

l the modified forms I FREDERICK C. GooDwIN. 

